Why all religions forbid homosexuality?

Most religions aren't new. The main goal of life way back then was to reproduce so humans wouldn't die out. Anything that wasn't helping that goal out would be frowned upon.

 

Well, first of all, they don't. Most certainly not all forbid it.

Second, I've never believed that anyone is arguing out of genuine religious conviction; it almost always is preservation of cultural norms, particularly sexist ones. Same-sex marriage and homosexuality itself challenge a strict gender-divided society and also challenge the illusion many have of a neat gender binary where behaviours are all the same. Sure, the window-dressing of religious virtue is thrown in, but it's an easy excuse for the underlying reasons for which they oppose our existence as a community.

I don't buy the idea that it was based off desperate needs to increase the birth rate. I've never seen any claim of that cite a source, even a secondary one.

 

Also, sex leads to euphoric sensations and feelings. If you are trying to control human beings, make sure they never figure out they can make themselves happy. Happiness comes from God or the State, citizen!

Sex is a base human desire way down in the amygdala and beyond. Religion is a cerebrum pre-beta monkey brain testing thing that is trying to override the brain stem.

Not gonna happen.

 

Actually, not all religions forbid homosexuality. The gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks and Romans, for example, often indulged homosexual or lesbian urges. The Buddha, for his part, never spoke against gay or lesbian sexual orientation. I've never seen us condemned in Taoism, either. Really, we get the impression that most religions are homophobic, mostly because the supposed proponents of the Abrahamic faiths are the ones making the most noise about it. They kind of make so much noise, that they manage to drown out the more reasonable voices even amongst themselves, what to speak of other religions.

 

My guess is that homophobia is the devil.
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Yeah, but to be fair not even every Abrahamic faith condemns it. Reformed Judaism, Unitarianism, and Episcopalianism come to mind.

 

idk life was weird once, i mean it still is but god damn we really werent supposed to eat or touch or wear or do a lot of things like i am reading some old testament and it its like god dang what the heck was even going on that they come with all these rules for

like what the HECK was even going on that this sounded poetic and good to make note of holy shit

 

Religions tend to condemn anything that goes against the norm since religions often function to offer a code of conduct for people to live by. It's uncommon among the world's cultures for homosexuality to be viewed as normal, therefore it is condemned by the religion and its code of conduct.

 

Yes, well I did say there were 'voices of reason within their own faiths'...that's kind of what I meant by that, sorry if I was unclear.

 

Homosexuality was often seen as an excess of lust. It was commonly believed because sex from women was "easier" to obtain some men would lust after other men for the "challenge".

I'm not sure sexuality applies to the laws of supply and demand....?

 

Many religious books were written by man and not by god so some times they put there own interpretation on.things and not what gods message really is.

 

Lots of religions don't forbid homosexuality, the Roman and Greek Gods didn't as far as I know, Guatama Buddha never spoke of us, and all that hippity hoppity. Most homophobia comes from the 3 Abrahamic religions, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The main goal back then was to repopulate and have children. Hundreds and thousands of years ago, people weren't as smart as Humans are today too. I honestly think that if it weren't for religion, us Humans would be years ahead when it comes to technology and science, but that's just me.

 

They don't. Just the abrahamic ones. There are plenty that don't.

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There is no evidence of that ever having happened.

 

I know not all religions forbid or have any opposition to homosexuality.

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AFAWK all religious books have been written by ma/en.

 

Islam supports the lgbtq

dude it's not about gay men ,it's about rapists,murder,stealing ,prostiution

 

To be honest in my eyes, religions act as a means of control... Its just a way to control people from doing things.

 

I think you are confusing the multiple sects of Christianity as different religions when it's all the same crap.

I'd say MOST religions DON'T forbid homosexuality.

Islamd, Judaism, and Christianity are one of the only ones that actively seek out to destroy the gay community.

 

saddqm and condom city??!

 

None of the major world religions forbid homosexuality, as they all pre-date homosexuality.

The word 'homosexuality' is a modern term (first used in the 19th century) - it didn't exist in Biblical or Quranical times. The writers of The Bible and Quran had no concept of sexual orientation or sexual development as we understand these today. Therefore passages from scripture that reference same sex activity must be read in context, through the lens of history.

It's entirely false and misleading to say that any major religion forbids or condemns homosexuality. How is it possible to forbid something that didn't exist as a concept until circa 1850?